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MM&C Faculty, Student & Alumni News Archive

This page highlights just some of the recent professional accomplishments and activities of members of the MM&C community. Most of these news items are distributed on the MM&C listserv as well. Please share your news with the MM&C community - you can submit news items here.

 

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Allan receives local and state awards

The September 2002 issue of R&R (radio & records) Street Talk Daily, describes notable awards to Dave: "[Philadelphia] Mayor John Street presented Allan with a special proclamation from the city--along with a Liberty Bell Award. Allan's outstanding commitment to public service was also noted by the local chapter of the NAACP. Not to be outdone, Pennsylvania State Representative Jewel Williams presented Allan with a proclamation honoring his many contributions to improving citizens' lives while VP/GM of WJJZ & WUSL."

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Berkowitz presents papers at AoIR and MEA, has book chapter published, and more

MM&C student Irene Berkowitz received a Top Paper award for her paper, "The Influence of New Media Technologies on Academic Research Paradigms," at Internet Research 3.0, the international conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (A.o.I.R.) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, October 13-16, 2002. She was further honored by being asked to introduce the final Keynote speaker, Cees Hamelink, the esteemed European moral and legal philosopher on the information age and primary consultant to the UN on Human and Civil Rights in the Information Society. This award also provided her with a number of opportunities to meet privately with significant people in the field of global information policy. Irene also presented, "Information Technology and the Technology of Information," at the Third Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association, June 21-23, 2002 at Marymount Manhattan College in New York.

Bishop has article published by Howard Journal of Communication, 2001

An article by MM&C alum Ron Bishop, "The Pursuit of Perfection: A Narrative Analysis of How Women's Magazines Cover Eating Disorders" appears in Volume 12, Number 4 (dated October 2001) of the Howard Journal Of Communications (pp. 221-240).

Bracken organizes, and she and others participate in, panel at ICA, 2002

MM&C alum Cheryl Bracken organized and moderated a panel discussion at the July 15-19, 2002 conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Seoul, Korea. She and MM&C students Ha Sung Hwang, Karl Horvath, Jae-Woong Kwon, Sung Bok Park, and Melissa Selverian, and Professor Matthew Lombard, had papers on the panel, which was titled, "Glimpse of the future: Current studies of the concept of presence." The presentations included:

Bradley presents paper at Women's Studies Conference, 2002
Professor Pat Bradley presented her paper, "Billie Jean King and the End of the Second Wave," at the Feminist Scholarship at Temple University: A Women's Studies Conference, on Thursday March 21.

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Cook authors book chapter

MM&C alum Judi Puritz Cook, who teaches at Salem State University in Massachusetts, is the author of a chapter titled, "Advertising on Public Television: A Look at PBS" in a 2002 book published by ME Sharpe called Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest.

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D'Angelo has article published
Paul's article, "News Framing as a Multi paradigmatic Research Program: A Response to Entman" appears in a late 2002 issue of the Journal of Communication.

Darling-Wolf receives Top Faculty paper award from AEJMC
A paper by Professor Fabienne Darling-Wolf, "Virtually Multicultural: Gender, Culture and Belonging in an International Fan Community," was presented and recognized as the Top Faculty Paper in the Entertainment Studies Interest Group at the August 7-10, 2002 conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Miami Beach, Florida.

Diaz accepts tenure track position at Ryder University
MM&C alum Mercedes Diaz has accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Communication at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

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Fernback presents paper at AoIR 2002
Professor Jan Fernback presented "Using Community to Sell: The Commodification of Community in Retail Web Sites," at Internet Research 3.0, the international conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (A.o.I.R.) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, October 13-16, 2002.

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Gil-Egui, Pileggi and Stewart present paper at IAMCR
MM&C student Gisela Gil-Egui, MM&C alum Mary Pileggi, and MM&C faculty member and dean Concetta Stewart, presented their paper, "The City Park as a Public Good Reference for Internet Policymaking," at the 2002 annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26.

Greenwood, Monolescu, Gallo and Lima present paper at WWDU 2002
MM&C student Linda Greenwood, MM&C alum Dominique Monolescu, faculty and curriculum support staff person Gail Gallo, and Department of Philosophy faculty member Katia Lima presented their paper, "Convergent Interests and Divergent Perspectives: The Marketplace of Ideas and Knowledge Sharing in a New Media Environment" at the 6th International Scientific Conference on Work With Display Units. WWDU 2002 was both a face-to-face and virtual conference based in Berchtesgaden, Germany that took place May 22-25, 2002 and focused on the theme of World Wide Work with information and communication technology. The presentation was conducted over the Internet, with the Office Hours Live Software (which allowed the presenters to share their work using Power Point slides and audio).

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Haller co-authors book chapter, has article published, presents several papers and receives Excellence in Media award
MM&C alum Beth Haller, an associate professor in the Department of Mass Communication & Communication Studies at Towson University in Towson, Maryland, is first author (with Sue Ralph) of "Current Perspectives on Advertising Images of Disability," in the 2002 book Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text-Reader, edited by Gail Dines and Jean Humez and published by Sage. Beth's article, "The Publications of the Carlisle Indian School: Cultural Voices or Pure Propaganda?" appears in the summer 2002 issue of American Journalism. She was the first author (with Bruce Dorries and Jessica Rahn) of, "Media labeling versus the disability community identity: A study of shifting cultural language," a paper presented at the National Communication Association (NCA) annual meeting in New Orleans in November 2002. She was the first author (with Sue Ralph) of, "Are disability images in advertising becoming bold and daring? An analysis of prominent themes in U.S. and UK campaigns," which was presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) annual meeting in Miami in August 2002. And on November 22, she won the 2002 "Excellence in Media Award" from the Maryland Rehabilitation Association. The award "is presented to an individual or organization with an outstanding record of portraying people with disabilities and their life experiences in a realistic and positive way." It was awarded for 4 opinion pieces Beth wrote for The Baltimore Sun in 2001.

Hwang and Kwon present paper at AEJMC, 2002
MM&C students Ha Sung Hwang and Jae-Woong Kwon presented their paper, "Visual Images of Terror: A Content Analysis of Photographs in American Daily Newspapers on September 12," at the AEJMC Midwinter Conference, held in Athens, Georgia on February 9 and 10, 2002.

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Karuchit presents paper at MAR AAS
MM&C student Sudjai Karuchit presented "Global Advertising in Thai Women's Magazines" in a panel titled "Cultures in Conflict: Local versus Global in Asian Advertising," at the conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR AAS), which was held in Baltimore, Maryland on October 25-27, 2002.

Kim presents papers at PCA and AEJMC
MM&C student Heeman Kim presented his paper, "Altering Myth and Constructing New Paradigm in Korea: Textual Analysis of Junghyun Lee's Music Video, Bakkou!," in the Asian Popular Culture division at the 32nd Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, in March 2002 in Toronto, Canada. He also presented, "Cultural Differences in CMC Uses: A Comparison of Korea and the U.S.," in the International Communication division at the August 7-10, 2002 conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Miami Beach, Florida.

Kim and Park present paper at ICA
MM&C student Heeman Kim and BTMM master's student Youngrak Park presented their paper, "Korean College Students' Perceptions of the African-American through Representation in the Black Music Video," in the Intercultural/Development Communication division at the 52nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) held July 2002 in Seoul, Korea.

Kitch is scholar in residence, authors book, receives grant, presents papers and has several articles published
A book by Professor Carolyn Kitch, The Girl on the Magazine Cover: Gender, Class and the Emergence of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media was published in fall 2001 by University of North Carolina Press. Carolyn also received a Temple University Summer Research Grant for 2002 for a new book she will write, tentatively titled Magazines and American Memory, which will assess the special role played by American magazines in defining and reiterating collective memory and national identity. She also presented a paper, "'Mourning in America': Ritual, Redemption, and Recovery in News Narrative after September 11th," in the Cultural and Critical Studies Division at the August 7-10, 2002 conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Miami Beach, Florida, and the paper has been accepted for publication in Journalism Studies, a refereed, international journal. Carolyn's written a chapter titled "Women in Journalism" which appears in a 2002 journalism history textbook called American Journalism: History, Principles, Practices. Her article, "'A Death in the American Family': Myth, Memory, and National Values in the Media Mourning of John F. Kennedy Jr.," appears in the summer 2002 issue of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. And her article, "Anniversary Journalism, Collective Memory, and the Cultural Authority to Tell the Story of the American Past," appears in the Summer 2002 issue of the Journal of Popular Culture.

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Larson and Haller have article published in Journal of Popular Film and Television, 2001
An article by MM&C alums Robin Larson and Beth Haller, "Public Reception of Real Disability: The Case of the Film 'Freaks'" appears in the Winter 2001 issue of the Journal of Popular Film and Television. (The article is available online at http://www.findarticles.com). Robin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, San Bernardino, and Beth is an associate professor in the Department of Mass Communication & Communication Studies at Towson University in Towson, Maryland.

Liu presents paper at MAR AAS
MM&C alum Chang-de Liu presented his paper, "Media Strategies of American Professional Sports in Taiwan," in a panel titled, "Cultures in Conflict: Local versus Global in Asian Advertising," at the October 25-27, 2002 conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR AAS), which was held in Baltimore, Maryland.

Lombard, MM&C alums and students organize and host PRESENCE 2001
Professor Matthew Lombard, alums Cheryl Bracken, Theresa Ditton and Jennifer Snyder-Duch; MM&C students Gisela Gil-Egui, Linda Greenwood, Karl Horvath, Selcan Kaynak, and Melissa Selverian; and Health Studies master's program alum Jessica Rossman organized and hosted PRESENCE 2001, the 4th Annual International Workshop on Presence. Details, photos, and more are in the Conference Proceedings web site.

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Marshall presents paper at NCA 2002, receives nominations for his work reporting for WB17 News
MM&C alum David Marshall, anchor chair for the Morning Show at CBS affiliate WRLB-TV in Columbus, Georgia, presented "Media Literacy and Higher Education: An Approach to University and Community Partnerships," at the November 2002 conference of the National Communication Association (NCA) in New Orleans. Dave received two nominations for 2002 Mid Atlantic Region Emmy awards by the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; the nominations were in the Reporter, Feature News and Outstanding Individual Achievement categories for his work as a reporter with Philadelphia's WB 17 News.

Maynard presents papers, gives talks, and is guest on WHYY's Radio Times
Professor Michael Maynard presented "Romancing the Global: Soto (Outside) Images in Uchi (Inside) Advertising to Japanese Teens" at the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR AAS) conference in Baltimore in October 2002, and was a panelist in a session titled "Theory Across the Curriculum: Integrating Communication Theory into Practitioner Courses" at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference in August 2002 in Miami, Florida. Michael was also the invited speaker at the Philadelphia Ad Club on January 16, 2003, where his talk was titled "Some Positive Thoughts about Negative Political Advertising," and at the Spring National College Media Convention 2002 in New York, where he spoke on "Research Results for a Successful Career." And Michael discussed "how and why advertisers are seeking alternatives to the traditional ways of reaching audiences" on the Radio Times program on Thursday September 26, 2002 between 10 and 11 a.m. on WHYY (91 FM); you can listen to the program in Real Audio format at the Radio Times web page.

Maynard organizes and moderates MAR AAS panel; Karuchit and Liu take part
Professor Michael Maynard organized and moderated a panel titled, "Cultures in Conflict: Local versus Global in Asian Advertising" that featured two MM&C students, Sudjai Karuchit and Chang-de Liu, at the October 25-27, 2002 conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR AAS) in Baltimore, Maryland.

Mendelson presents paper at AEJMC 2002
A paper by Professor Andy Mendelson and Zoe Smith at the University of Missouri and titled "Visions of a New State: Israel as Celebrated by Robert Capa," was presented at the August 7-10, 2002 conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Miami Beach, Florida, and designated a Top Three Faculty paper in the Visual Communication Division.

Mendelson and Papacharissi present paper at A.o.I.R. 2002
Professors Andy Mendelson and Zizi Papacharissi presented their paper, "Users vs. Manipulators: Investigating Two Approaches to Internet Activity," at Internet Research 3.0, the international conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (A.o.I.R.) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, October 13-16, 2002.

Mintzer receives Graduate Student Teaching award from ICA 2002
MM&C student Jennifer Mintzer received the 2002 Graduate Student Teaching Award from the Instructional and Developmental Division of the International Communication Association (ICA). As an award winner she was honored at the Instructional/Developmental Division business meeting at the annual ICA convention in Seoul in July, she received an award certificate, and her name has been added to the Division's permanent list of outstanding graduate student teachers.

Morris receives tenure, serves as UNESCO Communications Chair, is honored at IAMCR 2002 and co-edits book
Professor Nancy Morris was granted tenure at Temple University and promoted to Associate Professor in July 2002. She spent the Spring 2002 semester as the UNESCO Communication Chair at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). In recognition of her contributions as the UNESCO Chair, the Organizing Committee of the 23rd Annual Conference and General Assembly of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), held in Barcelona in July, asked Nancy to take part in the Opening Ceremony of the Conference. The event was held at the Palau de la Generalitat, seat of the Government of Catalonia, and only a few other eminent persons took the floor for the ceremony (click here for pictures). Nancy co-edited (with Silvio Waisbord of Rutgers University) a book titled Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2001.

Morris and Lombard present paper at IAMCR 2002
Professors Nancy Morris and Matthew Lombard presented their paper, "Reactions to September 11 in U.S. Daily Comic Strips," in the Political Communication Research Section at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2002.

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Overlock's Roma Mainstream Media Internship Programs awarded prestigious 2002 Evens Prize for Intercultural Education
The Roma Mainstream Media Internship Programs at the Centers for Independent Journalism in Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania, developed by MM&C student Janis Overlock, have been awarded the prestigious Evens Foundation Prize for Intercultural Education. The programs prepare talented young Roma for careers in the media through an intensive ten-month period that includes both classroom and on-the-job training. The long-term objective of the Roma Mainstream Media Internship Program is to foster the development of more pluralistic media to better represent the societies in which they operate. The Evens Foundation, based in Antwerp, Belgium, supports persons and groups that contribute to a deeper respect for the cultural and social diversity in Europe by offering a sustainable contribution to European integration and construction. The award ceremony is tentatively set for October at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.

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Papacharissi has articles published and leads student Digital Democracy Project
Professor Zizi Papacharissi's article, "The Self Online: The Utility of Personal Home Pages," appeared in the fall 2002 issue of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. A second article, "The Presentation of Self in Virtual Life: Characteristics of Personal Home Pages," also was published in fall 2002, in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. An earlier article by Zizi has been reissued: "The Virtual Sphere: The Internet as the Public Sphere" appeared in New Media & Society and has been translated into Hungarian ("A virtualis szfera: Az internet mint tarsadalmi nyilvanossag." Mediakutato) and will also appear in a new book, Information Society. At the National Communication Association (NCA) conference in New Orleans, Louisiana in November 2002 Zizi presented "Reconsidering Internet Time: The Quantity and Quality of Internet Activity" on a Media Forum panel focusing on Measuring Internet Use. And Zizi presented "Real/Virtual Dichotomy: A Meta-analysis of Research on New Media Uses and Consequences" at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Barcelona, Spain, July 21- 26, 2002. In the spring 2002 semester, the students in Zizi's Political Communication course (MMC 647) created The Digital Democracy Project, an attempt to understand and contribute to political uses of the Internet. The web site, which will be updated by students each time the course is offered, provides online resources on global, national, and local political issues.

Papacharissi and Zaks present paper at NCA 2002
Professor Zizi Papacharissi and MM&C student Anna Zaks presented, "Why Broadband? An Analysis of Broadband Diffusion and Potential," at the annual conference of the National Communication Association (NCA) in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21-24, 2002.

Pompper has book chapter published
A book chapter by MM&C alum Donnalyn Pompper, now an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Florida State University in Tallahassee, appeared in the 2002 book Enviropop: Studies in Rhetoric and Popular Culture from Greenwood Publishing Company; the title is "From Loch Ness Monsters to Global Warming: Framing Environmental Risk in a Supermarket Tabloid."

Pompper and Feeney have article published in Journal of Magazine and New Media Research 2002
An article by MM&C alum Donnalyn Pompper and MM&C student Brian Feeney titled, "Traditional Narratives Resurrected: The Gulf War on Life Magazine Covers," appears in the Summer 2002 issue of the Journal of Magazine and New Media Research. This special issue focuses on magazine cover research and is available online here.

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Snyder-Duch accepts tenure track position at Carlow College
MM&C alum Jennifer Snyder-Duch accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning in the fall of 2002 at Carlow College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Timmins nominated for regional Emmy
MM&C student Lydia Reeves Timmins received a nomination for a 2002 Mid Atlantic Region Emmy award by the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She was nominated in the Magazine Format Broadcast category for her work on 10!

Tunç presents paper at Politics, Culture and Society 2002 conference and has article published
MM&C alum Asli Tunç, Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Systems in the School of Communications at Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey, presented her paper, "Internet Regulation A La Turque: Historical and Contemporary Problem Analyses of the Internet Environment in Turkey," at the 1st Global Conference: Transformations in Politics, Culture and Society held in Brussels, Belgium, December 6-8, 2002. Asli's article, "A Genre À la Turque: Redefining Games Shows and the Turkish Version of Wheel Of Fortune," appears in the September 2002 issue (Volume 25, Issue 3-4) of the Journal of American Culture.

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Vilceanu presents paper at IAMCR 2002
MM&C alum Olga Vilceanu presented her paper, "Framing the future: Attitudes Towards the Millennium in Six Eastern European Presidential Addresses," in the Political Communication Research Section at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2002.

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Woodard presents papers at PCA/ACA conferences
MM&C student Richard Woodard's paper, "Arnold Schwarzenegger as Competitive Bodybuilder and Leading Male Movie Action Adventure Star of the Late 1980's: Male Earning Power and Fame Bring the Underground Sport Into the Mainstream," was accepted for presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Associations meeting held November 4-6, 2005 in New Brunswick, NJ. Richard presented "The Evolution of Gender in Workplace Situation Comedies From the Golden Age of Television to Today" at the 2005 national conference of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), March 23-26 in San Diego, California. Richard presented his paper, "The Decline of the American Television Daytime Soap Opera," at the February 2002 conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture-American Popular Culture Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Zaks presents paper at IAMCR 2002
A paper by MM&C student Anna Zaks titled, "Internet as Mass Media Institution," was presented in the Communication Technology Policy Section at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2002.

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